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Niv Shetrit

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Summary

Technical Lead specializing in embedded systems, performance optimization, and cross-team architectural initiatives. Experienced in mentoring, stakeholder coordination, and delivering impactful infrastructure improvements.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

Cisco Silicon One
01.2024 - Current
  • Led a team of 5 developers, mentoring both junior and senior engineers through regular 1:1s, technical guidance, performance reviews, and career growth planning.
  • Directed a cross-team code redesign initiative to improve code maintainability and development velocity by modularizing a large monolithic class into domain-specific handlers. Collaborated with multiple team leads, aligned on domain boundaries, and drove adoption across teams.
  • Designed and implemented a hardware-emulating threading solution that reduced a critical customer feature's execution time by 80%, mitigating customer risk. Recognized by company leadership for the impact.
  • Owned the design and evolution of key infrastructure components in an embedded environment, applying single-responsibility principles and interface-based design to reduce tight coupling and improve testability.
  • Coordinated directly with customers, business units, and internal stakeholders to refine requirements, manage scope, negotiate deadlines, and ensure successful project delivery under conflicting priorities.
  • Regularly performed code and design reviews, aligning team practices with broader group infrastructure, including Jira workflows and custom CI/CD pipelines.

Algorithm developer

Cisco Silicon One
10.2020 - Current
  • Led bring-up of high-scale database, based on hardware specifications and user requirements.
  • Prioritized and implemented numerous algorithms and features in C++ firmware, as part of an SDK stack.
  • Increased utilization of statistical database by ~25%.

Software Integration Engineer

Sony Semiconductor
07.2019 - 10.2020
  • Created pytest framework from scratch, implementing 30+ tests.
  • Developed tools in python & C++.

Education

B.Sc. - Computer Science

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
10.2021

B.Sc. - Computer Science and Math

Open University of Israel
10.2019

Skills

  • System Design
  • Performance optimization
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • C
  • Git
  • Python
  • Bash

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hebrew
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Japanese
Beginner (A1)

Hobbies and Interests

gaming, anime, bouldering,  ping pong

Timeline

Technical Lead

Cisco Silicon One
01.2024 - Current

Algorithm developer

Cisco Silicon One
10.2020 - Current

Software Integration Engineer

Sony Semiconductor
07.2019 - 10.2020

B.Sc. - Computer Science and Math

Open University of Israel

B.Sc. - Computer Science

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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